Paris, Jan, 28.
The official communique yesterday evening continues:
The fighting at Craonne on the 25th and 26th was of the following nature.
After a prolonged and intense bombardment with heavy guns, German infantry attacked our front at Heurtebise and Toulon Wood, and were everywhere repulsed with heavy loss except at La Crente, where a landslide, caused by the explosion of the enemy's heavy projectiles, blocked the entrance to a quarry which had been employed to shelter two companies of our troops, which were caught by the enemy. Having thus gained a footing, the enemy crept to Toulon Wood rendered untenable the adjoining trenches. which we evacuated.
Our counter-attacks, which recovered a good part of the ground. were pressed in a brilliant manner. the ardour of our troops being beyond praise.
The enemy's losses were very heavy. He left a thousand corpses behind, while the prisoners we have taken belong to four different regiments, showing the importance of the attack.
Four German attacks in the region of St, Hubert, in the Argonne, were vigorously repulsed.
Eversthing was quiet elsewhere.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.